This week we had another doctor's appointment. I was filled with anxiety about it because I knew with me passig the 11 week mark we would be checking for the heartbeat with the doppler. I wrote to some friends about the appointment and I thought I would just put it here....
Hey girls...
Well we went to the doc today! I was dizzy and nervous all day long! I was having so much anxiety over this appointment!! I knew we would check for the heartbeat with the doppler this time and I was just dreading it cause all that doppler does is bring back memories of the day we couldn't find Faith's heartbeat.
We got there and did the pee, bloodpressure, weight thing.....and then off to the room.....There it was...the doppler just sitting there. It was so hard to even look at it! The thing just scared me!! So my doc came in and we chit chatted for a while....Love Her! And then the time came!! She gave me the mumbo jumbo about it being early and not to panic blah blah blah....and was telling me to breathe! LOL So the doppler hits my belly and nothing.....just my heartbeat....I start to get REALLY Nervous.....so she's checking around and still nothing....Ok Heartattack mode!! Talk about de-ja-vu.....this was exactly how it happened with Faith.....finally she knew I was gonna lose it so she said...ok let's go take a look and off to the ultra-sound room we went....same as last time! It was like life was repeating itself! What a nightmare! She decided not to mess around with the transvaginal...she knew I needed immediate gratification....so she just quickly got the gel on me and did a regular ultra-sound. She could see I wasn't looking...I just couldn't....so she said "I'll tell you when to look" and then I heard her say, "Wow...looks great!"....So I turned around and there was our little jumping bean moving all over the place! She got a few great views of the heartbeat....which made me feel MUCH better and even better the baby is measuring 11weeks 3days!! Exactly where it should be! :) So we caught up! It was so funny how it was moving around! It was exactly like a mexican jumping bean...just spontaneously bouncing up and down! At one point you could see the hand really well and it really looked like the baby was waving at us!
So needless to say what started out bad ended very well and I feel much better!!
We got a pic but it is not good cause it was a regular ultra-sound on an empty bladder but I scanned it in anyway...
I put the picture below...Looking in between the 2 cross symbols.....The head is on the right, legs on the left ,and the hand is in the upper right hand corner of the sac. Really hard to see it looked so much better when we were there...
T :)
P.S I asked the doc about my dizzy spells and she told me to keep track of when they happen to see if it is related to not moving around enough at work, not eating enough, or what I am eating....she didn't seemed concerned but said if I keep track of it and pinpoint the trigger that makes it happen then maybe I can prevent them. Otherwise, if they get worse or don't seem to have a pattern I will call her.
Other than this excitement, not much else happend this week. I think we both feel much better about everything and seeing that little bean moving on the screen was just amazing! |
